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Catherine Thompson

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Catherine Thompson is a senior editor for Talking Points Memo in New York City. She came to the site in 2013 and reported on national affairs. Previously, she worked as a research assistant to investigative reporter Wayne Barrett. She can be reached at catherine@talkingpointsmemo.com.

A tea party-backed Texas lawmaker sparred with a heated constituent Wednesday at a town hall on immigration, where he urged a compassionate approach to dealing with the undocumented migrant children streaming across the border.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) said Wednesday that she had ordered an internal review of the nearly two-hour-long execution of an inmate, but she said she believed the condemned man who gasped and snorted throughout most of the ordeal "did not suffer."

Jon Stewart mocked cable news doomsayers on Wednesday's "The Daily Show" for branding a court decision that banned people from receiving Obamacare subsidies on the federal exchange as a huge blow to the health care law.